A guide to the history of physical educationLeonard, Fred Eugene
History
A guide to the history of physical education
Leonard, Fred Eugene
Physical education and training; Physical education and training -- History
The demand for teachers trained in the _Haandbog_ of 1899 could not
be met by graduates from these more extended and thorough courses of
preparation, however. For men and women already employed in the schools
who could not afford to leave their regular duties the state therefore
arranged short vacation courses of four weeks each. Thirty-four attended
the first one of these, given in Copenhagen in 1899. The next year it
was decided to move them out into the country, to _Seminarier_ and
_Folkehøjskoler_, and the numbers rose at once to 200. Between 1900 and
1911 the work thus offered was completed by 1027 men and 1680 women—an
average attendance of 225. In 1913 it reached 349. Still briefer courses,
of a single week’s duration (_Instruktionskursus_), brought a measure
of preparation to older teachers who were unable to leave their homes,
and these were often attended by the same persons for several years
in succession. Two thousand five hundred and twenty-six men and 519
women were enrolled in them in the years 1901-1911. The total number of
teachers trained in the newer gymnastics, in the state one-year course,
the university, the sixteen _Seminarier_, and the longer and shorter
vacation courses reaches therefore well into the thousands, and to these
should be added the other thousands who have attended the month-long
leaders’ courses (_Delingsførerkursus_) arranged by the rifle clubs or
their _Overbestyrelse_ since 1889.
The Danes have not been the only ones to profit by the agencies just
enumerated. Up to 1911 the one-year course had been taken by 15
foreigners (4 men and 11 women), from Norway, Finland, Poland, Germany,
Switzerland, Holland, England, and America; and 49 foreigners (25 men
and 24 women) had completed vacation courses. At the invitation of
Yorkshire school authorities _Gymnastikinspektør_ Knudsen conducted a
special vacation course for English teachers at Scarborough in 1905, and
two graduates of the one-year course, H. G. Junker and H. P. Langkilde,
were afterwards employed to train teachers in the schools of West Riding,
Yorkshire. Langkilde was engaged by the British ministry of war in 1906
to introduce the Ling gymnastics in the army gymnasium at Aldershot.
Two other graduates of the one-year course, Braae-Hansen (in 1908, as
director) and Frøken P. Brandt (in 1909), were installed as instructors
in state-supported training schools for men and women teachers of
gymnastics, organized at the Southwestern Polytechnic Institute in
London. In 1908 Junker began to give one-month courses for English
teachers at Silkeborg, in Denmark, which have been largely attended by
both men and women (more than 80 in each of the years 1910 and 1911), and
in 1910 he opened in the same place a one-year course for Englishmen.
Danish women have also served as teachers of gymnastics at various
English teachers’ colleges and in the schools of that country.
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